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TITLE

WORLDS APART: CANADIAN AND BRAZILIAN MULTILATERALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

AUTHOR(S)

Haslam, Paul Alexander; Barreto Jr., Edison Rodrigues

PUB. DATE

March 2009

SOURCE

Canadian Foreign Policy (CFP);2009, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Canadian policy makers have repeatedly emphasized improving relations with Brazil as a strategic objective in the Americas. Given past failures to cooperate, this objective may be difficult to realize. We argue that one of the reasons for this unrealized relationship between Canada and Brazil within hemispheric institutions is different national approaches to the role and purpose of multilateralism. This argument is advanced through an analysis of national interpretations of each country's engagement with multilateralism, drawing on the local literatures. The paper concludes with a discussion of the prospects and limits of future multilateral cooperation between the two countries, drawing on examples from the Inter-American System.

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